of profound scientific and spiritual reflection that recalls the works of Richard Powers and Marilynne Robinson. The pressure created gives her novel a hard, beautiful, diamantine luster.' -Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal 'A book of blazing brilliance. is burningly dedicated to the question of meaning.

A powerful, wholly unsentimental novel about family love, loss, belonging and belief that is more focused but just as daring as its predecessor, and to my mind even more successful. provokingly vital.' -James Wood, The New Yorker 'Laser-like. Transcendent Kingdom trades the blazing brilliance of Homegoing for another type of glory, more granular and difficult to name.' -Nell Freudenberger, The New York Times Book Review 'The novel is full of brilliantly revealing moments, sometimes funny, often poignant. 'Gyasi sometimes reminds me of other writers who''ve addressed the immigrant experience in America - Jhumpa Lahiri and Yiyun Li in particular.As in the work of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie or the Ghanaian-American short-story writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, the African immigrants in this novel exist at a certain remove from American racism, victims but also outsiders, marveling at the peculiar blindnesses of the locals.brilliant. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on Ox圜ontin.

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! * Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed novel Homegoing is 'a book of blazing brilliance' ( The Washington Post )-a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.

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